On the evening of December 2, 2009, in a victory for treatment activists, Canada’s House of Commons voted narrowly (143 in favour, 127 against) to move forward with a private member’s bill that would streamline “Canada’s Access to Medicines Regime” (CAMR), the law originally passed in 2004 to implement the WTO General Council Decision of … Read more
“We write to urge you to support legislation that will make it easier to send life-saving medicine to developing countries and, in the process, reaffirm Canada’s history of commitment to helping our fellow citizens of the world.”
Brief presented November 18, 2009 to the Senate Standing Committee on Legal and Constitutional Affairs regarding Bill C-15, An Act to amend the Controlled Drugs and Substances Act and to make consequential amendments to other Acts.
Complementing the Legal Network’s earlier detailed legal analysis of Bill S-232’s proposed reforms to Canada’s Access to Medicines Regime (CAMR), this supplementary submission outlines in summary form the key issues and the provisions of WTO law that permit Canada to simplify the current CAMR as proposed by Bill S-232, while complying with its legal obligations … Read more
Canada’s Access to Medicines Regime (CAMR) is not delivering on Parliament’s pledge to help developing countries get affordable medicines. The Canadian HIV/AIDS Legal Network endorses the amendments proposed in Bill S-232 that will help fix the current, flawed Regime.